Hi David,

I have visited Kyoto, Tokyo and many other places in Japan, and there are still many places to cover. I hope to do some more travelling in Asia, whilst living in Japan.

Excuse me for asking, but what do you mean by, Trad and Metre? I am only just starting to develop my form and style in writing poetry and any new terminology still kind of throws me.

Many thanks for your encouraging words. Bel

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"Walls! The more I pound

The more the concrete surrounds".

"hands are clasped,

Seeking answers from a universe

Unheard"

You have an intense power in your poetry that affects me greatly.

Do you like art? I wondered if you might like the work of a favourite artist of mine 'Kris Kuksi' http://kuksi.com/ His work is challenging to human kind, religion, war, death.

Ally x

Comment is about UNPROFOR (blog)

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Hi Belinda
Thanks for your comment... the sound of the love heart beating...beating ..was an intended structure.
Thank you once again.
Fondest
Gus

Comment is about Belinda (poet profile)

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Hi
Lots of strength in that piece Lauretta. Transported me for a while to that hyper-sensory harsh world of. Neon, Noise and faulty couplings. Glad to be back however.
Win x

Comment is about Scouting for Girls (blog)

So true and so funny at the same time! One thing I'm beginning to notice also is the number of poets inspired by the worldview of the "fabulous" Daily Mail! Haha!

Jonboy from Wigan

Comment is about Asylum Seeking Daleks (article)

Armpits aside, Jennie, I like your use of trad. metre and rhyme.

Comment is about Jennie B (poet profile)

Original item by Jennie B

an awesome example of performance poetry.
worthy and complete
passionate, angry

my idea of the genre of performance poetry encapsulated.

Comment is about Asylum Seeking Daleks (article)

HI Dermot, nice poem, statistics always lie!

Comment is about Variation and fugue (blog)

Original item by Dermot Glennon

Hi Freda
Calculator poem number 6 add up to 177,329 exactly (including title). See you monday.
Win

Comment is about Freda Davis (poet profile)

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Purrrrrrrrrrrr.

Comment is about Scouting for Girls (blog)

rubbed the right way
sounds ok
heres not wishing to label or brand
hard not to
when investigating hands
end up
assuming
they can have it all
on a night out
must be the messages
she transmits
only wanting
to fit in.

:-)

Comment is about Scouting for Girls (blog)

Not too keen on being sanded or branded. Rubbed could be alright.........

Comment is about Scouting for Girls (blog)

Hi Winston

Thanks for submitting to WC, it takes courage and it is a service to every poet who reads it although there may be only a few who post in that area.

As I have said time and again, the appreciation of poetry is subjective and my opinion is of no more worth than anybody else's. I have read several of your poems and I like your work although your style is very different from mine.

Others will think very differently as Lauretta has already shown.

If you want to put any questions to me directly or tell me what you think about my comments please feel free to do so on this profile or in an e-mail. Thanks again for contributing and keep up the work.

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Hi Rosy!
Looks good will try and attend if work permits, whip us all!

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Hi Mr Malpoet
thanks for reading and analysing at such length my poem in Write club. A lot of your comments I agree with, others I think I need to explain. Some I don't agree with. But I am really grateful of your time and effort spent on it. Winston

Comment is about Malpoet (poet profile)

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Val: I'm happy you like this one! from Lauretta
Janet: CJ may read it, my voice is a little hoarse this week ;-)
CJ:x

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gloom and grime has its place
and must be said
it feels right to
exorcise it Janet
x x x thank you for reading!

Comment is about Marilyn (blog)

Thanks Pete

I usually feel that I have left too many words in and I feel that about this one. It doesn't seem finished to me.

As people are always saying, poets have their own 'voice'. I love your style which I could not see fitting into my terse kind of approach to the few subjects that I treat at all seriously.

Humour seems to require more words. You always manage to bring tenderness, readily understandable human feelings and sometimes strong passions to what would otherwise be mundane. Like shopping or kebabs or whatever. That is a real talent. Apart from your lovely delivery of course.

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Hi Andy. Comment left in News Reader Blog area

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One of my best friends is called Marilyn. True!

Love the poem Lauretta. The bathroom and stairway created some fantastic imagery, if not a bit gloomy and grimy.
The title surprises me somewhat because i thought the poem was going to be about the singer of the same name.
Loving heroine has two connotations which again creates confusion in the mind and made me go back and read it again.

Janet.x

Comment is about Marilyn (blog)

Thanks Andy for your recent comment on Imogen.
I can always rely on you to comment on the beat and rhythm which is most appreciated.
Janet.x

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Hi Winston,
thanks for your comments to my recent blogs.
I did have some trouble with Imogen. I'll work on it and re-blog when i have a little time to spare.

Thanks also for comment on " Suzanne."
Hope she didn't keep you awake.
Janet.x

Comment is about Winston Plowes (poet profile)

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love it.
i try and write this gritty stuff but end up overblowing it, the minimal ah the minimal

I like the 'trainspotting' feel of this.

Comment is about Crunch (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

great!
love your stories,poems and travels mate!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment is about On the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth (blog)

I think this is a change in style for you, tone but carries a lot of power! Good Stuff!

Comment is about On the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth (blog)

A departure for you? - definitely somewhere over the footbridge! Like it.
Cx

Comment is about On the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth (blog)

Thanks Gus

Yes. A mighty and beautiful wall of chalk being the liberation from confining walls of mould. Maybe too poetic for such tragedy, but you can see the draw of the place.

Comment is about Redundant (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

very good ...moving but short of over sentimental i enjoyed it,,,j

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Morning Mal
Totally knocked out with your poem... very strong imagery...felt like having a hot shower and a bowl of soup after reading it!....Small wonder they use Beachy head for the final leap

Gus

Comment is about Redundant (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Thanks guys

For a long time I have been preoccuppied with the way people sometimes do awful things under pressure without intending to do them. In this case it is a short walk to the shop that turns into an inability to return, but there could be many other outcomes from an unlimited range of pressures.

Comment is about Redundant (blog)

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Yes Pete,this is different there is tenderness, I love the last verse your perception of life is quite remarkable.

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mmm - it's about time someone moved that bloody no smoking sign - it spoils the shots...

Comment is about Jeffarama at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton January 2009 (photo)

I agree; the last three lines are very powerful.
The despair of the first two stanzas put me in mind of the song 'The Beaten Generation' by my favourite band 'The The'.

Comment is about Redundant (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi Emma
A fresh slant on things in this interesting little offering. Thanks for posting. really liked it
Winston

Comment is about crippled script (blog)

Original item by Emma Roy- Williams

gorgeous Mel

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Hi There,
This is a powerful poem for me. Few words on each line but a strong image on almost all of these brief lines. The rhym at the very end drove the message home.
Winston

Comment is about Redundant (blog)

Original item by Malpoet

Hi there,
Thanks for your comments on SNAFU. To me, it felt angry - perhaps it's all in the eyes? :-) I'll work on sounding angrier!
It really is appreciated when you, and others, take the time to read & give feedback. I was verynervous about posting that soundfile - I recorded it at least a dozen times, trying to get it right; in the end I thought, post ithis now! - because I knew I was getting to the stage where I'd think oh I'll leave it for today, and so it would go on.
Anyway - nice to hear from you.
Cx

Comment is about Gus Jonsson (poet profile)

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thanks- i was always told i had bad handwriting or 'crippled script' at school, which is quite unfortunate when you want to be a writer!

Comment is about crippled script (blog)

Original item by Emma Roy- Williams

We reach the end of a chapter every day but we can write each one before it begins.

Love Janet.x

Comment is about Chapter's End (blog)

I love this one too.
Any chance of a listening link on this one?
So very different to others of yours and would love to hear it read without the rant.

Janet.x

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That's the beauty of a blank page, you can write whatever you want!
Cx

Comment is about Chapter's End (blog)

Ah, a weakness is a habit, hard to break free from.
Nice poem Loretta darling,
Love Janet.x

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Love it
Cx

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wow
loved this poem

I love it when a poem makes a little delve into psychology like this.

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Original item by Emma Roy- Williams

Photographs by Seamus Kelly www.shaysart.co.uk
If anyone wants a full size copy of their image Seamus will be happy to email it to them if they contact him on mail@shaysart.co.uk

Comment is about Jeffarama at the Old Boar's Head, Middleton January 2009 (photo)

Hi Linda:

I like your trad. metre and rhyme verses.

David

P.S: have you managed to visit Kyoto and a tea ceremony/garden?

Comment is about Belinda (poet profile)

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Hi Val
Just read your poem Bliss. Lovely feeling coming across in this one. Nothig jolted, nothing was "Mills and Boon" and a realistic and peacefull end.... lovely. Thankyou x
Winston

Comment is about Valerie Cook (poet profile)

Original item by Valerie Cook

Gratuitous - being without apparent reason, cause, or justification - the use of the worked 'fucked' in this context strikes you as gratuitous? - I think the reason I used that word is very apparent, and easily justifiable - if only on the basis that I'm reporting speech here. I'd be interested to hear what word you'd replace 'fucked' with that would have the same impact?
Under what set of circumstances would you deem it permissable to use fucked?
It's a good, old, Anglo-Saxon word - don't be afraid of it!
Cx

Comment is about Joshua Van-Cook (poet profile)

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Hi Dan, I sometimes do too!!

Cheers for message, yes its going quite well, I'm not as nervous as I used to be and I get a couple of bands asking me now!

I'm a bit behind with WOL poetry so haven't commented on anything for a while but will catch up!

Appreciate your message mate, cheers! Jeff

Comment is about Daniel Hooks (poet profile)

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great shots - fantastic event.

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